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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 5

September 30, 1955

51 Episodes

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Episodes

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The Last Out

September 30, 1955

A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.

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Bandit's Hide-Out

October 7, 1955

The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.

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Two-Bit Gangster

October 14, 1955

A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.

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The Girl Who Scared Men Off

October 21, 1955

A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.

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Nothing to Do Till Next Fall

October 28, 1955

A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.

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A Gift of Life

November 4, 1955

A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.

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No Trial by Jury

November 11, 1955

After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.

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Night of the Big Swamp

November 18, 1955

Reno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.

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The Careless Cadet

November 25, 1955

Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.

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Moment of Triumph

December 2, 1955

A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.

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On the Nose

December 9, 1955

An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.

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The Baited Hook

December 16, 1955

In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.

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Christmas Guest

December 23, 1955

A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.

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Well of Anger

December 30, 1955

In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.

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Fool Proof

January 6, 1956

When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.

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Dealer's Choice

January 13, 1956

The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.

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The Big Payday

January 20, 1956

A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.

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The Day I Died

January 27, 1956

A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.

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The Gentle Stranger

February 3, 1956

A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.

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Top Man

February 10, 1956

A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.

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On a Dark Night

February 17, 1956

A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.

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Ordeal

February 24, 1956

No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.

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Showdown at Painted Rock

March 2, 1956

A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.

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Web of Circumstance

March 9, 1956

A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.

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The Young and the Brave

March 16, 1956

Total Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.

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The Waiting House

March 23, 1956

The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.

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The Finger of God

March 30, 1956

An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.

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Angels in the Sky

April 6, 1956

A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.

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The Bitter Land

April 13, 1956

A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.

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The Mysterious Cargo

April 20, 1956

After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Mr. Gallup heads for the States on another ship. Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.

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Step Right Up and Die

April 27, 1956

When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse, but is trapped just the same and faces death.

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Formosa Patrol

May 4, 1956

The story of the destroyer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.

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Plague Ship

May 11, 1956

A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.

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Officer Needs Help

May 18, 1956

Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.

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Date for Tomorrow

May 25, 1956

After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.

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The Roustabout

June 8, 1956

A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.

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Pattern for Pursuit

June 15, 1956

Mountie Sgt. Douglas Renfrew is sent back to the Northwest Territory to reopen a murder investigation. The gun which killed a man has turned up, and its owner is the key suspect. Renfrew is nursed back to health following a mountain lion attack by the daughter of the murdered man. She claims the man he's seeking is no longer alive.

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Witness to Condemn

June 22, 1956

The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.

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Weapon of Courage

June 29, 1956

A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.

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The Mechanical Cook

July 6, 1956

Sgt. Childs wants to be a cook in the Air Force, but he keeps getting assigned duties like Hangar Chief. He gets himself assigned to a general's flight so he can show off his kitchen skills, but the general's dietitian has other ideas.

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The Happy Sun

July 13, 1956

When all of an aging Finnish lumberjack's family is wiped out in one night, he turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident, because he needs someone to love.

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The Bankmouse

July 20, 1956

An aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.

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Dara

July 27, 1956

An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.

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Flowers for Jenny

August 3, 1956

A woman tells her man she'll marry him, if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting. But as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet, he becomes involved with train robbers.

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Repercussion

August 10, 1956

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

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Boling Point

August 17, 1956

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

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Strange Defense

August 24, 1956

A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.

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I'll Wait for You

August 31, 1956

A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.

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The Press Agent

September 7, 1956

Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.

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Midnight Kill

September 14, 1956

Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.

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Top Secret

September 21, 1956

A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear